The Shan Van Vocht, a phonetic rendering of the Irish phrase An tSeanbhean Bhocht ("The Poor Old Woman," a traditional name for Ireland) is a novel by James Murphy detailing the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The protagonist of Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark finds "something exquisite in [its] blend" of "bad weather . . . [and] fire, implied danger [and] a love relationship".

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" They are coming from the West, Says The Shan Van Vocht ; And the flag we love
the best, Says The Shan Van Vocht, Waves proudly in the blast, And they've
nailed it to the mast : Long threatening comes at last, Says The Shan Van Vocht.

Daniel Cassidy is founder and co-director of An Léann Éireannach, the Irish Studies Program at New College of California in San Francisco. His research on the Irish language's influence on American vernacular and slang has been published in the New York Observer, Ireland's Hot Press magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Lá, the Irish...

" They are coming from tho 'West, Says The Shan Van Vocht ; And the flag we love
the best, Says The Shan Van Vocht, Waves proudly in the blast, And they've
nailed it to the mast : Long threatening comes at last, Says The Shan Van Vocht.

The Shan Van Vocht. " The sainted isle of old, said The Shan Van Vocht, The
parent and the mould of the beautiful and bold. Has her sainted heart waxed cold
? says The Shan Van Vocht. " The French are on the say, says The Shan Van Vocht, ...

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